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Show mwus's msumTioN. Tlie resignation of Dslegate Itivr-I Itivr-I lint It a rroceodlnnon which the public will want to hive further Inlorrastloi". At present we only know what hat reachej here by telegraph and that Is, at usual when the matter li of uncommon uncom-mon comequancotiui, Terjr rueeter. It appears that tho Delegate had made two or three calls upon the l'rrslilent retarding the secretaryship ol the Territory, rocelTlng a lltt e enc urago-mest urago-mest at first an I none at all at lasl; and considering himself "sniilled," lie hastily an I petulantly dratted aud handed In Ills resignation. It la ftlr presumption that Mr. llawllns knows hit own biisliiM bril, and It Is unquestionable that he can. not be compelled to hold a lotltlon which he does not want. Hut his party In Utah will probably exercise ex-ercise Its right of wanting ti know why 11 was notcocsulted nor apprised of such action before It was taken. To be at the head ol a force recently victorious vic-torious and, without advising It, to drop otTand quit, It sometimes a very demoralizing thing to do and Its In fluence In any cm cunnot but be felt. Jleildes the people of the Territory haTetome rights 111 the premises, They natuially will have littles consideration for an olllclat who thus childishly lsjs with n weighty trust, and will regret that the fortuno of politic gave tbem a representative who knowa his own mind so little, or whose mind Is subject to such su Jden and ooibarrass lng change. Tbo thousands of dollars which a new election will ooit, the turmoil and demoralization of business which political campaign Inevitably causca all this stems to have been overlooked or Ignored by tbo Impetuous Dole-Sato. Dole-Sato. It It tifo to lay tho ptopla of Utah will not ao easily overlook or Ignoro II, or tho man who It responsible for It. And If they can get no batter reason for ills oourte than that which It given his dIttpoIut-mentat dIttpoIut-mentat the selection of a ieJtral clllcrr for the Territory they will not feel much like Indulging In any parade or Jubilation on tbeocoaslon of hit return. Bucu oonduct tit tuch a oiuaewat scarcely ever heard of In the country'! history certainly, and happily, It la Utah's first experience of the kind. If all our Delegates had chosen to desert their constituents In this manner because of somo displeasure displeas-ure at the selection of Federal sp lolnteet, there would havo been many resignations and many special elections. Kortuuately they havo looked upon thtlr duty In a somewhat broader light. It has nover occurred to them tint they were elected to control con-trol Federal patronage In the Territory, or that that, Indeed, was a matter In which they had any rights at all save as advisers to the appointing power. The Nma has ouly recently Iliad occasion to comment on the "rights" which somo members of Congress havo been In tho habit of asserting and demanding; we are accordingly spared tho necessity now of pointing out wherein Mr. llawllns bss misunderstood the purpuiu for which ho was elected and tho ectvlcts for which hu Is paid. It Is a curluus fact that the, only approval his cooduot evokes comes on the one haud from his political c pononlswbocouslJer that they may have something to gala by another appeal to tbo poople, and on the other band from tbojo who havo arrayed themsilvcs as enointes to tbo Territory's Terri-tory's Bdvancsmeut; and It Is to be hoped he will be favored with u con-M con-M slant reminder of II. For Itself, the B Xmvd considers his course Insulting to H ooplo of the Territory nud potty and H babyish In tho extreme. BUM, better H now thtu later; let ui hops that next H time such noholce will bo made at to H spare us any roputltlou ot the humllla-H humllla-H Hon. |